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Friday, September 30, 2016

When The Obvious Becomes "Debatable"

Notice this quote from the Security arm of the Director of the National Intelligence Agencies (DNI):

"This memorandum was prepared by the National Intelligence Council and was coordinated with the US Intelligence Community.

Long-term changes in climate will produce more extreme weather events and put greater stress on critical Earth systems like oceans, freshwater, and biodiversity. These in turn will almost certainly have significant effects, both direct and indirect, across social, economic, political, and security realms during the next 20 years. These effects will be all the more pronounced as people continue to concentrate in climate-vulnerable locations, such as coastal areas, water-stressed regions, and ever-growing cities."

"We" know that Humble Oil-Qaeda, now known as ExxonMobil, has known that it has been responsible for sea level rise for a long time.

That is, Humble Oil-Qaeda knows what causes sea level rise.

In 1962 they even put a centerfold, two page advertisement in Life magazine bragging about it:

“This giant glacier has remained unmelted for centuries ... Yet, the petroleum energy Humble [now ExxonMobil] supplies — if converted into heat — could melt it at the rate of 80 tons each second!

(Humble Oil-Qaeda). Thus, if sea level rise is caused by ice sheet and glacial melt (a national security threat according to the national security agency memo quoted above in Section I), then Humble Oil-Qaeda is itself a threat to national security.

Fig. 3 Sea Level

Wouldn't that be a wake-up call for them to begin to avoid that issue, by diverting the focus?

I mean spreading the word that the ocean expands from sunlight hitting the sunlight zone (Epipelagic Magic).

Don't laugh, they have spread this "magic," like they have spread pollution of the ocean depths, into the deepest scientific depths:

"As the ocean warms, the density decreases and thus even at constant mass the volume of the ocean increases. This thermal expansion (or steric sea level rise) occurs at all ocean temperatures and is one of the major contributors to sea level changes during the 20th and 21st centuries" (IPCC).

"Rising temperatures are warming ocean waters, which expand as the temperature increases. This thermal expansion was the main driver of global sea level rise for 75 - 100 years after the start of the Industrial Revolution" (Union of Concerned Scientists)..

In this context, historically the government through the Judicial Branch has protected Oil-Qaeda when it has been sued, because:

Here's the core constitutional fact: a progressive president and Congress now face a conservative judiciary, for the first time since 1937. Obama's ambitious agenda, if enacted, must go before federal courts—where judges can rewrite or strike down key provisions.

(A Case of Big Oil vs. Climate Change, 2). In that case the judges voted to have an en banc hearing, then recused themselves so that the case could not be heard (the judicially honest thing to do was recuse before, not after).

In the Oil-Qaeda oriented 5th circuit (covering oil states like Texas) most of the judges in the federal courts once lawyered for or are sympathetic to Oil-Qaeda.

Thus, they are the majority in (at least) one of the branches of government.

Maybe in Boston, where the runaways from England landed (hey pilgrim!), there will be a different result (CLV v Humble Oil-Qaeda) ?

Not likely.

V. The Problem Is Psychological,

Not Economic, Not Legal, Not Political

I will close with a quote from some of Sigmund's works:

If the evolution of civilization has such a far reaching similarity with the development of an individual, and if the same methods are employed in both, would not the diagnosis be justified that many systems of civilization——or epochs of it——possibly even the whole of humanity——have become neurotic under the pressure of the civilizing trends? To analytic dissection of these neuroses, therapeutic recommendations might follow which could claim a great practical interest. I would not say that such an attempt to apply psychoanalysis to civilized society would be fanciful or doomed to fruitlessness. But it behooves us to be very careful, not to forget that after all we are dealing only with analogies, and that it is dangerous, not only with men but also with concepts, to drag them out of the region where they originated and have matured. The diagnosis of collective neuroses, moreover, will be confronted by a special difficulty. In the neurosis of an individual we can use as a starting point the contrast presented to us between the patient and his environment which we assume to be normal. No such background as this would be available for any society similarly affected; it would have to be supplied in some other way. And with regard to any therapeutic application of our knowledge, what would be the use of the most acute analysis of social neuroses, since no one possesses power to compel the community to adopt the therapy?In spite of all these difficulties, we may expect that one day someone will venture upon this research into the pathology of civilized communities. [p. 39] ... Men have brought their powers of subduing the forces of natureto such a pitch that by using them they could now very easily exterminate one another to the last man. They know this——hence arises a great part of their current unrest, their dejection, their mood of apprehension. [p. 40]

2 comments:

GREAT post, Dredd! Yeah, I knew this wouldn't go anywhere, since the whole system has been captured by Wall Street and giant corporations (and their lobbyists). Perhaps, if the citizenry (armed to the teeth) get mad enough, we'll see some awful mob justice start taking out the colluders in the government and marauding Big Oil's corporate offices (as well as their outlets) when the chaos abounds (a bit later in the collapse). In the meantime, it looks like business as usual until the whole thing falls apart and CAN'T work any longer.

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